Note: These snapshots are for people, who use Linux as operating system and are able to build software from the source code.

There is no easy to install package for people who want to quickly try out a new BIOS on their computer, yet. For this purpose we will soon provide a disk image, which you can use with the QEMU emulator to test coreboot on your Linux, OS X and Windows computers (without having to do any hardware changes).

Snapshots

There is an archive of coreboot snapshots available at qa.coreboot.org. A new tar.bz2 file is created whenever the repository changes.

coreboot v3 was an experimental development tree of coreboot which should not be used anymore (there are only very few exceptions)! Most features from v3 are gradually being merged back into the main tree. If you want this experimental coreboot v3 tree (ca. 16 MB data as of 10/2008):

HTTP Access

NOTE: The coreboot repositories make use of svn:external properties to get required components into its source tree. However, this automatism only works when using the SVN protocol. If you are using the HTTP protocol for downloading coreboot, you need to download those sub-components manually in order to be able to build coreboot.

If your company installed a firewall that blocks the svn port (3690) you can also check out using the webdav frontend:

$ svn co https://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk coreboot

Developer access with write permission

Access for developers with write permission, is very similar to anonymous access. Just add your Subversion username as follows when checking out the repository: